Balbo: "Tuesdays is the Answer"

Balbo to announce redrawn football plan

February 16, 2010





The South Coogee Wanderers football club could move their matches to Tuesdays, according to the football blueprint that Abel Balbo will release this month, SCW sources say.

But it will not be called a blueprint, as the Club President Iainamoto had unknowingly previously envisaged. It will be known as the “match alignment and normalisation plan” and will be substantially redrawn from the document that was leaked by club sources after Iainamoto moved to the club’s north coast 100-room Suffolk Park resort.

There will be less emphasis on a 25-year plan and turnstiles, and more on planning in the short-term, the Herald has learned.

It is understood that the traditional Wednesday night match may be substituted by a Tuesday night fixture. Part of the reasoning behind the change is believed to be to alleviate the heavy volumes of spectator traffic that clog Erskineville streets before and after matches at the Erskineville Emirates Stadium. It is also believed that Shawaldo needs to wash his hair on Wednesday nights.

This is a far cry from two years ago, when Iainamoto announced a planned 12 billion kip upgrade to the turnstiles at the Emirates Stadium with much fanfare.

Other sources said the document was still a ''moving feast'', and Cardinal Storrienko, and his bureaucrats were proving a stumbling block to some of the plans being pushed hard by the Club Gymp, Lonky Borelladonna.

Storrienko is said to be the powerbroker behind the club now, having blessed Iainamoto’s children and provided laundered indulgences to Club Whip, Don Sven.

Storrienko is battling hard for Wednesday nights,'' a club source said. ''We're back to the future, with evangelicals running the show.''

It appears possible that the plan may contain a negotiated agreement between the club’s factions, such as having a Thursday match for each 53rd gameweek per calendar year, and matches kicking off at 5am to suit global television audiences in Stockholm, Santiago and Montreal.

Another source said: ''Iainamoto was unknowingly heading for a 25-year plan … [but] the club is really interested in what we are … going to do to fix things now.''

The executive director of the SCW Supporters Club, Brendan Fevola, backed the plan yesterday.

"If Tuesday night games are cancelled or significantly varied, it will rob SCW fans of a once-in-a-generation opportunity to deliver world-class defensive midfield play,'' Mr Fevola said.

The match alignment and normalisation plan is expected to be released late this month, when the moon harmonises with Jupiter and Mercury is in Aquarius.